Religion in Modern world !

Kashmir University was engaged recently , it is heard , in a seminar on Revisiting Classics in post modern secular World! Distinctly some political Braham declared in the words of some western man that god is dog and that reason and science were the routes to solving all the problems mankind is facing today.Even if one would believe he was talking about god and not God, this utterance is situationally poisonous and humanly humbug ! First secularism means state’s non interference in matters of religion and as a consequence recognition of all faiths people can hold without any fascist activity funded and supported by the state. How then in Kashmir, where from Shah Hamadan RA and Lal Ded down to Ahad Zargar and Laleh Aregame people have lived creatively as religiously illuminated ones by and large and have left behind treasures of universal tolerance and love, can this provocation fit in at a time when Petrol Bombs are used now to frighten out the secular tradition of this land besides other disturbances that have sucked peace and prosperity of this unfortunate abode ! I hope it is not linked with any political activity, in Bihar or elsewhere to play the drama of fascism! Is science classics and if not how does the reference to science relate itself to the seminar? Even if we assume that it does, is the science based on laboratory a JUDGMENT on religion which involves methods from sensory perceptual understanding to empiricism to authority to rationalism to imagination and intuition to form a perspective in which life is to be seen and appreciated? Are we to refute and declare great sources of human culture obsolete by this arrogant declaration, sources that revere Aeschylus, Homer, Kalidasa, Dante, Goethe, Firdousi, Nizami, Attar, Rumi, Ibn i Arabi, Avicina, Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy , Tagore and Iqbal with numerous others listing whom is laborious. West and East abounds to exalt religion as it still applies anodyne on wounds inflicted by modern science and technology which, again, to me are not classics! We do not deny the movement of the clouds and the winds and the lighting and the thunder as natural phenomenon but we are wonderstruck to see the bond between the clouds and the rain and the growth of vegetation that makes the earth abound in greenness , the elixir to the jaundiced eye. We do agree that the earth is potential to sustain life but we do certainly see REHMAN functioning all around, a comprehensive term that does not only try the Lame Satans of political jugglery and devastation but shows how the breastfeeding mother is related with the growth of the child in emotion and intellect also and how feeling so nurtured obliterates the havoc created by the machine and mechanical civilization of modern or postmodern world. Hands off the frogs in the well and observe the dance of the starry sky and the fragrant whiffs of zephyr making that dance all the more carousing and illuminating to the wakeful humanity! We do not participate in Bihar elections, not in any TAMASHA near Banaras threatening millions to be burnt alive if they do not vote for FASCISM! We are peace lovers and lovers of mankind in spite of the efforts that are made to turn us into mafia!

Contributed By:

Prof Syed Habib

Prof of Education 

email:habib.zabarwan@gmail.com